Letter From Birmingham Jail By Charles Moore

The Civil Rights Movement was a movement that took place from 1954 to 1968 in the United States for Black Americans to gain equal rights and abolish segregation and discrimination. The photojournalism of Charles Moore and others defined the American Civil Rights Movement and catalyzed social and political change by showing the truth about the brutality that many Black Americans were experiencing to evoke awareness and anger to see a need to support and take action. In the 1960s, civil rights leaders were trying to accomplish freedom from legal segregation and discrimination for Black Americans because they believed that what was happening to them was not right. In “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” In the text Martin Luther King states, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to

In this image, Moore captures “in a luminous glare” the brutality and racism towards black people being shown in his images. His images use truth to provoke the viewer into believing in a better cause. Little Rock Nine - Corbis Bettman. The Little Rock Nine shows a young Black girl, Elizabeth Eckford, who was 1 of 9 other Black students who were allowed by court to go into Little Rock's Central High School. Bettman stood in the action of the scene to capture the reaction of the people to make the viewer question how someone could be looked at in such an inhumane way for no reason. Iconic photographs like Birmingham, Alabama influenced public opinion and served as a catalyst for social change by taking images of the movement in the face of action to raise awareness to create change by evoking outrage in the viewers, showing the world what was happening so that segregation would be abolished. Photographer Flip Shulkes compelling image: A man lies on the ground after being beaten illustrates the aftermath of someone who was fighting for equal rights, and what they had to deal with just to be treated like a human